Diversity and Unity

DESCRIPTION

Culture, identity and citizenship are constantly rethought, recreated and contested. These processes are particularly acute in three countries involved in this tri-national project: South Africa, India and the United Sates. The volume reviews these processes in theory and practice with particular emphasis on current critical approaches to multiculturalism and identity construction, and how this is mediated by factors such as gender, race ethnicity and caste.

The book adds new dimensions and more recent directions to the issues already discussed in CHET's first volume of its series on curriculum transformation in higher education: Knowledge, Identity and Curriculum Transformation in Africa.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Albie Sachs

Preface

Nico Cloete, Michael Cross and Edgar F Beckham

Participants' acknowledgements

SECTION I: INTRODUCTORY ISSUES

1. Introduction

Edgar F Beckham

SECTION II: UNITY AND DIVERSITY

2. De-centring conceptions of campus diversity

Alison Bernstein

3. Culture, identity and the role of higher education in building democracy in South Africa

Nico Cloete, Michael Cross, Johan Muller and Sury Pillay

4. Democracy, plorality and the Indian university

Shiv Visvanathan

5. Gender, citizenship and diversity

Shireen Hassim and Amanda Gouws

SECTION III: CONTEXTUAL ISSUES

6. From exclusion toward inclusion: the struggle for diversity in American higher education

Richard H Brown and William E Kirwan

7. Campus-community linkages: a dialogue on diversity

Jaya Indiresan

8. Strategic evaluation: an imperative for the future of campus diversity

Daryl G Smith

9. Community outreach and the college curriculum

Sharada Nayak

SECTION IV: CONCLUDING ISSUES

10. Avoiding closure and challenging frameworks

Michael Cross and Nico Cloete

Appendix A - Agenda: Trinational seminar on campus diversity, South Africa, March 1998

Appendix B - Participants